Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:16:16 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> Cc: Jung-uk Kim <juikim@engin.umd.umich.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? Message-ID: <20000619121616.A64383@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000619114515.A64102@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:45:15AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006151309350.6158-100000@engin.umd.umich.edu> <Pine.SGI.4.10.10006151523550.166103-100000@acl.lanl.gov> <20000619114515.A64102@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Mon 2000-06-19 (11:45), Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > 'linuxbios' will only support booting off Linux partitions? > > I doubt they're replacing a multi-purpose, occasionally > not-all-that-clever thing, with a single-purpose very-often > not-all-that-clever thing? Ah wait, having read a bit more, they are. Good luck to them. I would have thought that redo-ing the entire BIOS would be a bit extreme. A 'simpler' serial console video/keyboard interaction firmware chip would have been nice. If you really want to be funky, add in network support for TCP/IP-based BIOS interaction. Otherwise, for the five-nines, replacing the whole BIOS is extreme. (says he, wondering why malfunctioning hardware tends to make his brain malfunction) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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